Windfall
2006 - 2006•1 season•13 episodes•~45m•
★4.0(3 ratings)
DramaCrime
Overview
Windfall is a serial drama television series about a group of people in an unnamed small city who win almost $400,000,000 in a lottery.
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Windfall is a serial drama television series about a group of people in an unnamed small city who win almost $400,000,000 in a lottery.
Nina Schaefer
The series spans 1 season with 13 episodes in total (avg. 13 per season).
Each episode runs approximately 45 minutes.
Originally aired on NBC.
1983
Lottery! is an American drama series that premiered on ABC on September 9, 1983. The series aired for one season of 17 episodes and starred Ben Murphy as Patrick Sean Flaherty, and Marshall Colt as Eric Rush. Lottery! centered around ordinary people who have won the lottery--all of a sudden becoming millionaires--and how it changes their lives.
2000
The lives of a suburban family from Leeds are turned upside down when the matriarch wins £38 million on the lottery.
1991
Chances was an Australian evening soap opera, produced from 1991 to 1992. It told the story of the average middle-class Taylor family whose lives are transformed by winning $3 million in the lottery. The series was broadcast by the Nine Network, initially as two one-hour episodes each week. Principal cast members included John Sheerin and Brenda Addie as Dan and Barbara Taylor, Jeremy Sims as their mischievous son Alex, Deborah Kennedy as Dan's sister Connie Reynolds, Tim Robertson as Dan's brother Jack, Anne Grigg as his wife Sarah, and Michael Caton as neighbourhood friend Bill Anderson. Originally, creator Lynn Bayonas pitched the show as a family-oriented drama; however to help ensure the program's success, Channel Nine asked for nude scenes and risqué elements to also be included in the series. Initial publicity for the show focused on the sex angle, and it was for this that Chances was chiefly known.
1955
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
2008
On April 1st, 1986, Jean-Guy Lavigueur, an unemployed blue-collar worker and his family won 7.6 million dollars. At the time, it was the largest amount ever won at Loto-Quebec's 6/49 weekly draws. What should have been the beginning of a fairytale for the family turned rapidly into a nightmare...
2025
An ordinary man, facing financial desperation, assembles a team of underdogs to pull off a daring heist to steal the lottery jackpot on live TV.
2006
In a social drama context, the work deals with the story of Faisal, who suddenly moves to the luxury class, when one of the businessmen takes him as as a cater to practice his business, and they agreed that Faisal is the bond and protection, and the relationship between them continued until this man decided to get rid of Faisal and the events.
2012
A drama exploring how winning the lottery transforms the lives of ordinary people.
Unknown
An unexpected inheritance thrusts a pair of scrappy sisters into a world of generational wealth and long-buried crimes.
Mixed
3 votes
Windfall
Canceled
No
English
6/8/2006
8/31/2006
